The One Year Bible - Day 169

Is this strange today? Elijah has just triumphed at Mt Carmel (or rather God did!) and then the very next moment, he has got scared of a death threat and done a runner. No doubt Jezebel was a powerful and evil woman but where did his courage go? I wonder if it was simply a case that when Elijah was at Carmel, he was very much 'in the Spirit' where his courage came from. However, now that was finished, it was just ordinary Elijah with all his fears facing a challenge. It is much harder to have faith when God is not noticeably present but we are assured from this story that God both knows and cares when we face these challenges in our 'normal' life. We also don't face the same level of danger as Elijah so we should be confident that God knows what is going on and we need never think that we are alone in our fear.